Today was my second and last class of my Master's. It's called Transnational Media in Context. I was expecting my prof to be Sue Turnbull, a very well respected Australian scholar whose work I used for papers this past year. Unfortunately she got a new teaching position up north where it's warm and now I have an older gentlemen for my teacher that specialises in documentary film analysis.
Although I was wary at firs,t this professor is willing to put all reading materials online, which means I haven't had to pay for ANY books this semester! The Professor made us going around the room and introduce ourselves, say where we were from, which program and what we wanted to learn in the class.
Lucky for me, my professor is half Canadian! His mother lived in Winnipeg and he travelled there every summer from Aus. Now we have formed a bond, as I'm the only Canadian in my class. He also told me that people from Tasmania are like Newfies- I'm hopefully going to travel there next semester and find out.
The class is going to talk about social media, global sports competitions, worldwide news and the foreign correspondent journalist. Looks to be very good so far!
In other news I've purchased tickets to see a Canadian Japonese Rugby game at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand! This friday my travelling buddies and I (another Canadian from Guelph and 2 Americans from Chicago) are planning our spring break trip (Sept.22nd to Oct.2nd) . More details to come :)
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